This board is a composition workshop, like a writers' workshop: post your work with questions about style or vocabulary, comment on other people's work, post composition challenges on some topic or form, or just dazzle us with your inventive use of galliambics.

Below is a story in Ancient Greek that I composed in the form of an “embedded reading.” An embedded reading is similar to the “leveled readings” that I have been doing on the other thread, but here the idea is that the base level is repeated and contained within, rather than paraphrased, in each subsequent version of the story. You can read more about the method here:

Mark, this is brilliant... your best leveled or embedded reading ever! And the story is great. Thanks to Susan Jeffers!

What really makes me excited about this particular reading is that it is truly at beginner level. There is such a dearth of material out there at beginning level. We have all sorts of readers that are supposedly beginner (Greek Boy at Home, Thrasymachus, Moss, etc), but I sure don't see it an beginning level. None of them make any attempt at shielding the beginning learner from having to know far too much vocabulary. This reading does use limited vocabulary, without shielding grammar (which is the way it should be!).

Thank you very much. What's your next story? Does Susan have another dozen or so of these stories?

Since you mentioned Thrasymachus, is there an answer key for this book? There seems to nothing online in my searches. I just don't feel confident enough to do the exercises without an answer key. Thanks for your reply.

Thank you for your reply but the above website lacks an answer key for this book. Perhaps someone reading this message is a Greek teacher at a school who can get an answer key to Thrasymachus or at least the information I need to purchase one. I am not a college student, just a do it yourself learner. Thanks for your help in advance. Pros

Maybe a week ago, I re-read the stories above. Then I came across this, "ἀνήρ τις κατήντησεν εἰς πόλιν," and recognized it as κατα and ανταω in composition. I hadn't known the word. These sorts of experiences are confirming one of the sub-points in my blossoming theory about Greek pedagogy.

"Vocabulary should be added through reading. The best reading is embedded stories."

mwh wrote:A great exercise, but only (of course) if the Greek is correct, so I hope you won't mind my interfering like this.

No, I don't mind the interference at all, and I very much appreciate the corrections. I edited the text to reflect your corrections. All of my readings no doubt have very many mistakes, and I am producing them not as finished products, but really to be a model of the sorts of resources that I think would be helpful. In an ideal world, those resources would be peer-reviewed and corrected and improved along the lines that you have done. εὐχαριστῶ σοι!